Chapter 128: Song Qinzong, Who Was Miserable but Not Worthy of Sympathy

"Why is it Prince Kang, and not the Crown Prince?"

Many Jinshi had doubts.

Those who could pass the Jinshi were not fools, even if they had not yet been officially appointed,

and entered the court as officials, they also knew the meaning contained in the Emperor's act of sending Prince Kang to represent the Qionglin Banquet,

instead of the Crown Prince who had already been established as the successor of Great Song, was how subtle.

"It is said that this Prince Kang has 'natural intelligence and strong memory',

when reading, he can recite more than a thousand words a day, and at the same time practice piano,

chess, calligraphy, and painting, especially in calligraphy, he has deep attainments."

Someone said meaningfully about some of Prince Kang's superior performances.

"Could it be that the Emperor intends to use Prince Kang to check and balance the Crown Prince?"

Thinking of the meaning, even in the spring day when the weather was getting warmer,

everyone couldn't help but feel a bit chilly.

Although Great Song ruled the world with loyalty and filial piety, under the supreme imperial power, how can there be relatives, fathers, sons, and brothers?

Not to mention the Tang Taizong who killed his brothers and imprisoned his father,

the warning of the shadow of the axe and the candle sound of Great Song Taizu and Taizong is not far away!

And the ministers involved in it had few good endings, and there were not a few who died and had their families destroyed.

Thinking of this, a group of Jinshi felt a bit tasteless.

"Everyone, today is a great day for us, we should be indulgent and celebrate well!

Come, everyone, drink!"

Some quick-thinking people immediately found a good excuse and stood up to invite.

"Brother's words are reasonable! Today's joy, don't talk about state affairs!"

Immediately, someone echoed.

"The days of worrying about state affairs are in the future, today we should be happy!"

The Jinshi immediately began to raise their cups and chopsticks, and be indulgent.

A Qionglin Banquet ended in the absent-mindedness of many people.

During this period, everyone showed enough respect to Prince Kang,

but did not make even a little bit of intimacy,

for fear of being beaten into the Prince Kang party by accident,

becoming a thorn in the side of Crown Prince Zhao Huan, and their future official career would be fraught with difficulties,

or even being squeezed into the power struggle between the Crown Prince, Prince Kang, and the Emperor, and being crushed into powder.

And Prince Kang, who had been sitting in the main seat, although he was talking and laughing throughout the banquet,

his face was somehow stiff, and a trace of haze flashed in his eyes from time to time.

They were all the Emperor's sons; to say that he had no thoughts about that supreme position was impossible.

But his biggest competitor Zhao Huan was not only the Emperor's eldest son,

but also had already established the name of the Crown Prince, and was the undoubted successor of Great Song.

Even if he had any thoughts, he absolutely could not show them at this time,

all he could show was absolute brotherly love and infinite loyalty to the next Emperor of Great Song.

'Could it be that I can only be an idle prince for the rest of my life?'

Thinking of those clansmen who were named idle but were actually imprisoned, and didn't even have the freedom to enter and leave the Prince's Mansion,

Prince Kang felt that the fine wine that had been stored for decades in the cup was no longer mellow, but extremely bitter.

Zhang Jie didn't care about these; his performance at the Qionglin Banquet could be described in one sentence:

He directly joined Li Gang to eat and eat!

Many of the ingredients at this Qionglin Banquet were protected animals that would be sent to the iron rice bowl for months or even decades after eating once before he transmigrated!

Zhang Jie didn't care at all about the infighting between the three generations of Emperors of Great Song, Song Huizong, Song Qinzong, and Song Gaozong:

What does your Great Song's business have to do with me, Zhang Jie?

However, even he couldn't help but shed a tear of sorrow for Zhao Huan for Song Qinzong's encounter:

This brother only served as Emperor for 2 years, and was still a puppet and marionette of his father Zhao Ji,

and for the next 29 years he was a prisoner, and at the age of 57, he was directly trampled to death by chaotic horses, accepting his miserable life.

This brother spent most of his life as a slave in a foreign country,

which could be called the most miserable Emperor in Chinese history, without one.

And the reason for all this was that the child had no mother—it's a long story.

Although Song Qinzong Zhao Huan was the eldest son of Song Huizong Zhao Ji and had an indisputable legal right of succession,

if the sudden invasion of the Jin army did not happen in Great Song, he would most likely not be able to be Emperor.

Because on him, except for the identity of the eldest son, he had no advantage to be Emperor.

The first is that his father Zhao Ji, in addition to his knowledge in piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting, far exceeded the Renzong and Zhezong before him,

his fertility also topped all the Emperors of Great Song for three hundred years, he had a full 25 sons!

Compared to the extinct Renzong and Zhezong, it can only be said that the drought is dry to death, and the flood is flooded to death.

Even if you exclude some princes who were too young, there were several who were only a few years younger than him and could completely threaten his status.

This point can be completely referred to the nine-son seizing the heir in the Kangxi Dynasty,

after all, if Zhao Ji hadn't moved to the cellar of Wuguocheng later,

living for a Jiazi or something shouldn't be a problem.

The second point is that Zhao Huan's biological mother, although she was the original Empress of Huizong, was not liked by the promiscuous Huizong.

Moreover, when Zhao Huan was 9 years old, his mother passed away,

which meant that Zhao Huan lacked the support of a powerful maternal family,

while the mothers of other princes could blow the pillow wind to Song Huizong.

The most extreme example of this is the Tang Minghuang who set the super record of killing three sons in one day under the slander of Wu Huifei.

The third is that Zhao Huan's own aptitude was average, and he was not very intelligent among many princes;

his "no artistic cells", and he had no outstanding talent in piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting,

which made Zhao Ji, who was more like a literati than an Emperor, like him?

Not like himself!

In this regard, there is also an extreme example,

and that is the Han Wudi who loved to fight and his weak son Liu Ju.

But he personally ordered his son to be forced to death on the day he was most like him.

It can only be said that the changes in the world are so unpredictable, no one can grasp everything,

even if that person is an Emperor who has conquered everything except birth, old age, sickness, and death!

The fourth is that Zhao Huan's personality was weak, his ears were soft, he had no opinion,

and his governance ability should be below 30 points, not even as good as Liu Shan.

At least Liu Shan could support Zhuge Kongming without reservation.

Liu Shan supported Shu Han for 29 years after Zhuge Liang died, which shows that he was not a wise king or a hero,

but he was not a faint king, he was just an ordinary king of defending the city.

His final surrender was just that the army was gone, and the support from the front could not arrive in time,

take the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city to fight with the enemy and then be slaughtered just to achieve his posthumous name?

Looking at this, Liu Shan might have insufficient ability, but he was not a bad person.

His biggest slot is nothing more than happy and not thinking about Shu, but people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads, a sentence of happy and not thinking about Shu,

not only preserved himself but also preserved how many court officials and their families in Shu.

Moreover, he was not happy and not thinking about Shu, maybe he drowned in the toilet the next day.

Moreover, is that called happy and not thinking about Shu? That's called Liu Shan laughing to death Sima Zhao~

However, the fun of history lies in this:

It can always make some unexpected little "surprises":

In December 1125, Zhao Huan accepted the abdication of his father Song Huizong and ascended the throne, which was Song Qinzong.

At that time, the Jin army went south, and Song Huizong heard that the Jin army was coming, and he was so scared,

he immediately wanted to learn from Li Longji during the An Lushan Rebellion, and wanted to run away.

However, the Emperor ran away, and someone had to stay here to do something?

At least he had to make a gesture, and he couldn't resist at all,

because Bianliang was not only the capital of Great Song, but also the face of Great Song!

So, Song Huizong wanted to keep Zhao Huan, who was still the Crown Prince at the time, to lead the army to resist,

as a scapegoat and a substitute.

At that time, there were ministers who said: the Crown Prince leading the army is not justified,

it is better to pass the throne to the Crown Prince, so that he has the name of righteousness, and better lead the army to resist.

Song Huizong thought about it, and felt that the minister's words were reasonable,

even if something happened in the future, history would not blame him.

After all, Bianliang was lost in Zhao Huan's hands, not in Song Huizong Zhao Ji's hands.

Just like this, this greedy and fearful father Song Huizong, on the eve of the Jin army's attack on Bianliang,

hurriedly passed the throne of Great Song to the Crown Prince Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan was Song Qinzong, the last Emperor of Northern Song, and the reign name was Jingkang, the Jingkang of the Jingkang Shame.

However, although Zhao Huan was miserable, he was not worthy of sympathy,

because the destruction of Northern Song had a lot to do with him.

In the Jingkang Difficulty, the Jin army besieged Kaifeng twice on a large scale.

The first time was on January 31, 1126, when the Jin army besieged Bianjing, the capital of Northern Song.

In Bianjing, the Jin army suffered great resistance,

in addition to the army led by the main battle faction Li Gang hitting the Jin army hard,

there were also 100,000 Western troops led by the famous Northern Song general Zhong Shidao who arrived to support.

The Jin army, seeing that it was highly likely that they could not win, took the initiative to stop the war and demanded peace.

Under these circumstances, Song Qinzong went to negotiate peace himself, and actually agreed to the Jin army's high compensation.

Afterwards, the Jin army withdrew from Bianjing.

The main battle faction led 30,000 elite troops, ready to take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy the elite troops of the Jin army.

Song Qinzong initially agreed, but the main peace faction disagreed.

Song Qinzong's ears were soft again, he had no opinion, and finally surrendered to the main peace faction.

And he sent people to set up a big flag on the Yellow River,

strictly ordering the army not to bypass the big flag to pursue the Jin army, and those who violated it would die.

Not only that, Song Qinzong also listened to the slander of treacherous officials, dismissed Li Gang, and exiled him to Jiangxi.

And the famous general Zhong Shidao was so angry that he fell ill and finally died with hatred.

Zhao Huan thought that giving the wolf a few pieces of fat meat would turn the wolf into a dog!

He didn't know that without absolute power suppression, a wolf is a wolf,

even if they are full, they will not become dogs!

The result was that the Jin army, which had eaten meat once and wanted more, came back half a year later.

On December 17, 1126, the Jin army arrived at the city of Bianjing again, besieging the power center of Northern Song.

Originally, the power of the Song army had not been as elite as it was half a year ago after the various divine operations of the Huizong and Qinzong Emperors,

while the power of the Jin army was much stronger than half a year ago.

The key was that Song Qinzong sent people to fight while secretly looking for the Jin army to negotiate peace.

As a result, the Jin army fought more and more bravely, the Song army was unable to resist, and finally the two Emperors were captured by the Jin people.

There were also thousands of people in the Northern Song royal family, who were driven to the north like animals.

Song Huizong and Song Qinzong, father and son, suffered all kinds of humiliation in the north.

In 1156, Zhao Huan died of illness in Yanjing,

at the age of 57, exactly 29 years after he left Bianjing.

"Da Song Xuanhe Yishi" records: In 1156, Song Qinzong Zhao Huan was on the polo field of the competition,

after falling from the horse's back, he was trampled to death by horses.

Looking at Song Qinzong's life, it was miserable, but not worthy of sympathy.

To this, Zhang Jie could only say that when the country is about to perish, there must be monsters.

For Northern Song, the Huizong and Qinzong Emperors were clearly the two biggest monsters.

At night, Zhang Jie entered the shared space as usual.

"Wow! Is this the feeling of a horse-riding parade?"

Experiencing the scene of Shuihu Zhang Jie's horse-riding parade, which was full of people, gongs and drums,

firecrackers, and very lively, Yitian Zhang Jie marveled.

Shuihu Zhang Jie waved his hand and said with a blank face:

"Do you think Jinshi are very happy?"

The next second, he broke his work and said with a smile:

"The happiness of Jinshi is something you can't imagine at all!"

"Cut!"

Tianlong Zhang Jie and Haize Zhang Jie directly raised their middle fingers to the proud Shuihu Zhang Jie:

"Everyone is Zhang Jie, isn't your happiness our happiness?"

"However, you actually met Zhao Gou Zhao Jiumei!"

Tianlong Zhang Jie stared at Shuihu Zhang Jie, his eyes shining, as if the blind monk had discovered a bright spot.

"This Jiumei really has a bit of heroic spirit."

Yitian Zhang Jie also sighed.

Haize Zhang Jie sighed:

"Who would have thought that this person who has talent in piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting,

also practiced martial arts, and it is said that he could 'pull a bow to one stone and five dou',

reached the level of abandoning life in martial arts, and could be called a master of both civil and martial arts.

During his time as a hostage in the Jin camp, he could be calm and composed,

calmly responding to the reprimands of the Jin people, and once shot the target three times,

making the Jin people marvel, suspecting that he was not a real prince,

but the Prince Kang who was a general's son, would be the Song Gaozong who indulged Qin Hui,

unjustly killed Yue Wumu, and claimed vassalage and tribute to the Jin Kingdom?"

Shuihu Zhang Jie also hated the fact that he was unfortunate and angry that he was not fighting:

"In the past, they only sought peace after defeat, but Zhao Gou sought peace while winning;

In the past, they only ceded land after defeat, but Zhao Gou ceded land while winning!

Such strange things, not to mention never seen before, even never heard of!"

"In the Song Dynasty, there was no lack of food, no lack of capable ministers,

no lack of soldiers, only the courage of the Emperor!

If later generations had one-third of Taizu's courage, they wouldn't have destroyed the country!

Great Song's initial idea was to reverse the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and establish order;

but this order eventually went too far, so much so that later generations forgot why order was initially established.

Such a country and organization will definitely be smashed by the retro power full of martial virtue."

Tianlong Zhang Jie gave his final summary of the Song Dynasty. ===== CHAPTER 129 =====

But this kind of order eventually went too far, to the point where later generations forgot why order was established in the first place.

Such a country or organization would certainly be ruthlessly smashed to pieces by retrogressive forces full of martial virtue."

Heavenly Dragon Zhang Jie stated his final conclusion regarding the Song Dynasty.